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The three most commonly used standard document-classes in LaTeX include: article, report and book. A number of global options allows customization of certain elements of the document by the author. Different document-classes might have different default settings. The following post illustrates available options with figures, provides alternatives and highlights the default option for each document-class. … [Read more…]

The default header with fancyhdr for a book (two-sided by default) displays the chapter at the inner side (left odd, right even) and the section title at the outer side (left even, right odd). For long chapter and/or section titles, the two may overlap. There are several possible workarounds to solve this issue. One may … [Read more…]

Changing the font size in LaTeX can be done on two levels, either affecting the whole document or parts/elements of it. Using a different font size on a global level will affect all normal-sized text as well as the size of headings, footnotes, etc. By changing the font size locally, however, a single word, a … [Read more…]

I was recently asked to write a three page assignment/case study using the following page, line and font settings: Arial, size 12 1.5 line spacing 2.5cm margin all round Let’s do one by one. Font type and size Font types are actually a bit of a pain in Latex and so far, I have … [Read more…]